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Cornflower

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Translation detailsModel: mistral-large-2512.

A rural girls’ game from the Sierpc district (Mazovia), suitable for secondary school girls. The girls divide into pairs (designating one as the “dancer” and the other as the “dancing partner”). These pairs form two lines facing each other, holding hands. Singing the first verse (and the following refrain: one, two, three), both lines glide forward with a mazurka step until they are half a step apart. During the second verse, they retreat to their original positions. On the third verse, they advance toward each other again, and on the fourth, they perform a hołubiec dance with the dancing partner from the opposite pair. On the fifth verse (i.e., the repetition of the fourth), the dancers return to their original positions with their partners exchanged. The game then repeats from the beginning until each dancer returns with their original dancing partner.


Transcription scope: musical notation and song lyrics omitted as material outside the corpus scope; exact boundaries recorded in the extraction report.

Source scan: Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library, marked “Public Domain”. View PDF — page 90.

  • Type: game
  • Traits: Not stated in the source
  • Source: Eugeniusz Piasecki, Zabawy i gry ruchowe dzieci i młodzieży (1922)
  • Printed pages: 85–86 / PDF 90–91
  • Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
  • Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 85
  • Read the source text: zgr-030